25 Android Apps to Learn About Any Disease, Symptom, or Medicine

Nurses often deal with patients one-on-one to help them in admission, during illness and in recovery. The following 25 Android apps can help along the way, as they point to disease symptoms, offer positive changes for a preventive and healthy lifestyle and provide entire libraries filled with apps designed for education or to pass on to patients. These tools can be useful in studies and in emergencies.

Diagnoses

Alzheimer’s Disease: If you know someone who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease, this app can help you understand much more about the basics of this affliction. Learn how to care for someone with this disease, and learn how it affects a person’s mind and physical condition.

Cancer Signs and Symptoms: Cancer Research UK is the world’s leading cancer charity dedicated to saving lives through research. Their groundbreaking work into the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer has seen survival rates double in the last 40 years.

Illness Tracker: Input your symptoms, meds, and possible causes of your illnesses. The Illness Tracker will keep records of your input and you can show your doctor everything needed on your next visit.

Instant Heart Rate: The most accurate heart rate monitor for smartphones available. Measure resting heart rate and heart rate recovery with graphing of heart throughout the process. More than five million downloads since September 2010, and this app is among the top apps in the Health & Fitness category at the Android store.

Medical Diagnosis & Treatment: Written by clinicians renowned in their respective fields, CMDT offers the most current insight into symptoms, signs, epidemiology, and treatment for more than 1,000 diseases and disorders. For each topic you’ll find concise, evidence-based answers to questions regarding both hospital and ambulatory medicine.

Medscape: Although it is obvious that Medscape offers downloads for iPhone and iPad on the Web site, the app for Android isn’t that easy to find, except at the Android store. This app includes a fast and comprehensive drug reference, including herbals and supplements. It also includes an in-depth disease and condition reference and treatment guide.

NIH Depression Information: If you, or someone you care about suffers from Depression, this application will come in very handy for every day use. All information contained is from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). Included, you’ll find sections on symptoms, causes, diagnosis and treatments.

OnTrack Diabetes: OnTrack is an application to help diabetics manage their diabetes by tracking various items such as blood glucose, food, medication, blood pressure (BP), pulse, exercise and weight.

Pathology and Disease: Pathology and Disease is a fully-featured flash card app that helps you learn about disease processes. This app is perfect for doctors, nurses, paramedics, medical students or anyone interested in diagnosis and treatments.

Your Rapid Diagnosis: application designed to assist with the diagnosis of medical conditions which can be differentiated by their symptoms. A probably diagnosis can be established with this software within two minutes by using a deductive logic system.

Preventive Care

Anti-Aging for Android: This app contains ten color-light and sound therapy treatments that each use a specific Color-light wavelength and sound frequency to treat and heal a variety of ailments based on a sacred geometry of gemstones, vitamins, minerals, noble gases, and colors. This app also includes a full before-and-after photo gallery, testimonials, and a complete FAQ educational guide.

Discovery Health: Find timely information on fitness, food and weight loss; mental health and stress management; and beauty and skin care. Learn how to navigate your healthcare, determine what type of doctor you may need for your illness and share interesting information with family and friends.

Easy Stop Smoking: If you’ve ever struggled with stopping smoking this app is the answer, providing incredible support whenever you need it. Easy Stop Smoking has received rave reviews worldwide and features four powerful hypnosis sessions to help you get through the pain. of withdrawals.

Herbal Remedies: Learn about herbal remedies, how to use them effectively and how to use herbs to build a healthier life. This app goes into depth on how to choose herbal remedies for treatment as well as for preventive lifestyles.

Home Cures for Arthritis: Since so many people in this country (over 150,000 a year) are afflicted with this excruciating, deforming disease, many home remedies have been tested and used with some degree of effectiveness. Listed in this guide are 50 folk remedies that have been tried by various people for treating arthritis in general and rheumatism.

iTriage: iTriage was created by two emergency room physicians to help people answer health questions such as “What do I have?” and “Where do I go for treatment?” You can use iTriage as a symptom checker, doctor finder, or as a medical reference tool. iTriage helps you figure out what is ailing you, what type of doctor you should visit, and shows you the closest appropriate healthcare providers to your current location or any location you choose.

MyVirtualHealthCheck: Now you can securely record, monitor and share your vital sign information right from your Android mobile device. One versatile app allows users to better manage glucose, heart rate, blood pressure and weight, while making a healthier lifestyle easier to achieve with the aid of a robust, set of tools.

Pocket First Aid & CPR: Whether you’re at home or on the road, the American Heart Association’s Pocket First Aid & CPR app is at your fingertips with concise, clear instructions to care for you and your loved ones. Includes the latest videos, images, and emergency content from the American Heart Association.

Libraries

BAWidgets: Ths company produces widgets for Android that include topics such as allergies, diabetes, heart disease and cancer symptoms. Most of these widgets include news about each topic, along with possible symptoms and treatments.

Epocrates: Get reliable drug, disease and diagnostic information with Epocrates apps. Epocrates offers a free drug reference application, Epocrates Rx, and premium applications Epocrates Essentials and Epocrates Rx Pro that include many additional features. Epocrates is a leading provider of clinical solutions to healthcare professionals and interactive services to the healthcare industry.

gWhiz Medical: This company produces medical apps for Android that include flash cards, exam reviews and medical terms. Although geared toward medical professionals and students, these apps are perfect for anyone who wants to study the details of diseases and their treatments.

Physiosensing: This company offers real-time physiology for constant health through their Android apps. Try eBody, eRunners Body, eRunner Racing or health applications such as eDiabetes, eHypertension or eCholesterol.

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